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CD-R Explained Create your own music and data CDs on your Amiga with our simple guide. Need More Space? Reviewed: Interviewed:Interviewed: We guide fxPaintfxPaint Bill McEwen you through BurnIT Tutorials: choosing and MakeCD CD Writing preparing a new MasterISO VGA to PAL Project AmiTradeCenter Back to Basics: Shell hard drive. Wildfire 7 PPC Cinema 4D WipeOut 2097 Grand TV Amazing CONTENTS CONTENTS income so knock it off guys! If you want By to purchase such items as hard drives Contents Editor Robert Williams etc, then just shop around and get a good deal, but I would recommend that Only room for a very short editorial this must go to Bob you join your local Amiga user group so News issue, and now some more good news: Tiffen for his ex- that they can advise you on compatibility tensive Cinema4D SEAL Update ...............................3 Suffice to say that the news from the St. issues should they arise. tutorial. News Items ..................................4 Louis show is very interesting, with Bill Question 6 are you sure? The software Update Amiga Update ..............................10 McEwan’s talk to the user group Finally, if you’re on that comes out on the Amiga I believe is representatives being particularly the ‘net and want very well priced considering how many The rest of the AGM was spent discuss- relevant to current Amiga users. If to keep up to date with our progress on Web Site Features copies of the application or game that ing the future of SEAL, some of the Amiga do all the things he mentions Clubbed please join our clubbed- they are likely to sell, most people that I The SEAL website has recently been activities suggested for the future were: Interview with Bill McEwen ..........11 there (including supporting user groups announce mailing list, information inside know who have Pc’s haven’t paid a moved onto a new server. If you use CD-R Explained ...........................12 and PPC hardware companies), they will the back cover. • Fund raisers (raffles etc.) single penny for 95% of the software SEAL’s new address: be a long way to winning the support of • SEAL Sale Enjoy the mag and I look forward to that is sitting on their hard drives and http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/ this Amigan and I’m sure many others. the change will not effect you. However • Tutorial videos (hardware and soft- Reviews meeting some subscribers at the why you ask, well the bottom line is that ware) Demos and Tutorials I hope you’ll enjoy the increase in tutor- Kickstart Show in May. piracy is so rife on the PC it is out of if you use one of our older addresses BurnIT ..........................................16 you may get either a redirection page or • Amiga celebrity guests MakeCD.......................................17 ial content for this issue, special thanks control, no sooner than a game or appli- • Inter-usergroup activities cation is released then it is copied and a “Not Found” error so please check MasterISO....................................19 • Beginners Workshops distributed! But unlike the Amiga even your hotlist is up to date. fxPAINT........................................20 By • Social Activities Mick Sutton though the colossal amount of piracy AmiTradeCenter...........................23 Chairman going on, it will not cause the failure of EMail Addresses Meetings Wild Fire 7....................................24 This quarter I would like to talk about the item is not the platform single handed due to the SEAL is now able to provide its Since the AGM, we have been making WipeOut 2097..............................26 Amiga hardware and software dealers, faulty when I know fact that nearly every business out there members with a username@seal- an effort to have an activity, such as a Grand TV Amazing ......................28 as the subject of value for money and it is? has Pc’s with legitimate software on it amiga.co.uk EMail address, you can tutorial or demonstration at every other service quality seems to be a point of Ok then lets try and that means large volumes of soft- choose any username you like and meeting. These have included interest to our club members, at most of Support and answer them ware is still being sold. EMail sent to that address will be auto- demonstrations of fxPaint and our meetings. People are always ap- in order, the first, Question 6 is an awkward one to answer matically forwarded to your real EMail Photogenics 4 and a round-up of three VGA to PAL Project .....................29 proaching me and asking why things second and third address. Please ask Gary Storm for useful utilities. The utilities round-up was Hard Drivin’ ..................................30 cost so much money, when it has any- as there are two sides to the coin here, questions all have a pretty similar more details of this service. particularly interesting as several Back to Basics: The Shell............32 thing to do with the Amiga. if you buy an item and try it in your answer. Nearly all Amiga hardware Amiga and it doesn’t work then send it members had their own suggestions of Cinema 4D Tutorial ......................34 Several SEAL addresses have already Well, I am not here to defend the devices are not mass produced generic back with the statement “oh it doesn’t changed to the new domain, the most programs they couldn’t live without. Cinema 4D for Beginners ............38 “Amiga” dealers nor am I here as a items, by that I mean you won’t find work I want my money back” one of two important changes to remember are the Hopefully they will feel inspired to dem- spokesperson for all Amiga users, but I them inside a PC anywhere and there- things can happen, 1 the dealer checks club address (for general club informa- onstrate their choices in the future. Back Issues .................................39 can see that there are two sides to every fore it has had to be designed, devel- the item finds it faulty and agrees to tion) which is now seal@seal- Another feature that was suggested at Next Issue....................................39 coin, and I shall try and make sense of it oped and tested by someone (not for refund your money or send another, or 2 amiga.co.uk and the magazine address the AGM was beginner’s tutorials, in fact Gallery..........................................40 from both perspectives. free) and a machine has to be specifi- the item is checked by the dealer who which is [email protected]. the committee was already planning to cally tooled up for quite a limited produc- start these. To help with these tutorials A typical member of SEAL will ask me discovers that there is nothing wrong tion run. Also the individual components with it! SEAL has purchased an A1200, the following questions. AGM on the device are usually not industry Blizzard 1230 accelerator and 8833MkII The fact is many items that are returned 1. Why do “Amiga dealers” sell ac- standard and therefore are higher cost SEAL held its Annual General Meeting monitor so a basic system will always be Do The celerator cards for the price they do to purchase in the first place. That com- to dealers are themselves working fine in February, we had an excellent turn available at meetings. when PC dealers sell whole PC systems bined with the fact that only low but when combined with a certain con- out with about 25 of our 30 plus figuration of say motherboard or other for less? numbers of units will be sold (probably members present. SEAL Sale devices then it will not work correctly only thousands at best) the final cost of The meeting started with Mick Sutton 2. Why are graphics cards for the (Apollo accelerators are one thing that We are planning to hold an Amiga event any boards will be quite high, it cannot giving a summary of SEAL’s finances Amiga so expensive when the latest comes to mind). Also quite a few work- in the next few months, currently we are be avoided (look what happened to and Robert Williams outlining Clubbed’s Thing turbo nutter bastard super duper 3D bench “hacks” tend to create problems working towards an early September Phase5), I’m afraid we are stuck with it finances and progress. Committee elec- Write card for the PC cost so little? by doing things in an OS unfriendly way date. The sale will take place on a unless the Amiga has a sudden rise in tions were then held. Mick Sutton, Sunday at SEAL’s meeting venue: We’d like to make Clubbed more “in- (get OS 3.5 to get your system up to a 3. Why do motherboard add-ons (clock popularity. Robert Williams, Gary Storm and Jeff Northlands Park Community Centre, teractive” so we need your input! decent running environment) and can header devices, scan doublers, IDE Martin were re-elected to their positions Question 4 is interesting because I can cause conflicts. What I suggest is that if Basildon. We will be hiring the whole buffered interfaces etc..) cost so much? of Chairman and treasurer, Vice Got a question you’d like answered see no reason why any of the items you can try the “Faulty” item in another building for the day, this should give Chairman and magazine editor, or an opinion you’d like to share? 4. Why are generic devices such as listed should cost any more than at other Amiga with for example a different plenty of room for exhibitors and activi- Promotions Officer and Committee Write to us and we’ll include it in a CD-ROM’s, hard drives, CDRW’s, Zip dealers, maybe they are trying to bump revision of motherboard or in the case of ties.